Conceive it thus: A Malefactor that hath committed high Treason against his Prince, and being taken, he is imprisoned in the strongest Hold, the deepest Dungeon, without hope of release; imagine a man comes and satisfies the wrath of the King, and answers the Law, so that the King says upon satisfaction given, ⟨p. 124⟩the Law is fully answered, no wrong is done: If he shall so do, the King is bound, not only to be […] in […] of himself, and the wrong done to […] and his Law, but he is also bound to give his […] Hand, Authority, and Commission to him that paid for the Prisoner, that he may go and fetch the Prisoner from the Dungeon, and […] him away with him; Imagine that the Jailer grows sturdy and stiff, he […] the Prisoner is profitable to him, therefore he […] and says the Prisoner shall not depart; now he that hath Authority from the King must be able to break the Prison doors, and then to slay the Jailer, and by force to deliver the Prisoner from the bondage he was in. Thus it is here; every sinner is a Prisoner to Divine Justice, Sin is the Prison, and the Devil is the Jailer that holds him in bondage by reason of the power of Sin, and by virtue of Commission from Divine Justice; Christ Jesus hath come and payed our debts, satisfied Divine Justice, and answered the Law; that God the Father hath professed, This is my beloved 1Son, in whom I am well pleased, the Law is performed, my anger fully appeased, and my mercy procured; therefore all those sinners for whom thou hast died and obeyed, shall be redeemed from the power of Sin, and authority of Satan; and now God the Father gives him a full Commission to […] those sinners from the hands of sin and Satan: But now, when Christ comes for the soul, Satan and sin refuse, they will not let the sinner go; therefore Christ by the virtue of his Resurrection, and by the power of his Spirit, he doth rescue the soul, whether sin and Satan, and a mans heart will or no, he will have the soul, and humble him, and call him, and justify him, and […] him, and glorify him, and then deliver him up to his Father at the great day.
Conceive it thus: A Malefactor that hath committed high Treason against his Prince, and being taken, he is imprisoned in the strongest Hold, the deepest Dungeon, without hope of release; imagine a man comes and satisfies the wrath of the King, and answers the Law, so that the King saies upon satisfaction given, ⟨p. 124⟩the Law is fully answered, no wrong is done: If he shall so do, the King is bound, not only to be 〈…〉 in 〈…〉 of himself, and the wrong done to 〈…〉 and his Law, but he is also bound to give his 〈…〉 Hand, Authority, and Commission to him that paid for the Prisoner, that he may go and fetch the Prisoner from the Dungeon, and 〈…〉 him away with him; Imagine that the Jaylor grows sturdy and stiff, he 〈…〉 the Prisoner is prositable to him, therfore he 〈…〉 and saies the Prisoner shall not depart; now he that hath Authority from the King must be able to break the Prison doors, and then to slay the Jaylor, and by force to deliver the Prisoner from the bondage he was in. Thus it is here; every sinner is a Prisoner to Divine Justice, Sin is the Prison, and the Devil is the Jaylor that holds him in bondage by reason of the power of Sin, and by vertue of Commission from Divine Justice; Christ Jesus hath come and payed our debts, satisfied Divine Justice, and answered the Law; that God the Father hath professed, This is my beloved 1Son, in whom I am well pleased, the Law is performed, my anger fully appeased, and my mercy procured; therefore all those sinners for whom thou hast died and obeyed, shall be redeemed from the power of Sin, and authority of Satan; and now God the Father gives him a full Commission to 〈…〉 those sinners from the hands of sin and Satan: But now, when Christ comes for the soul, Satan and sin refuse, they will not let the sinner go; therfore Christ by the vertue of his Resurrection, and by the power of his Spirit, he doth rescue the soul, whether sin and Satan, and a mans heart will or no, he will have the soul, and humble him, and call him, and justisie him, and 〈…〉 him, and glorifie him, and then deliver him up to his Father at the great day.
- 1Mat. 3. 17.
